Joan Chen
Joan Chong Chen (born April 26, 1961) is a Chinese American actress, film director, screenwriter and film producer. She became famous in China for her performance in the 1979 film Little Flower and came to international attention for her performance in the 1987 Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor. She is also known for her roles in Twin Peaks, Red Rose White Rose, Saving Face and The Home Song Stories, and for directing the feature film Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.244 |
| Birthday | 1961-04-26 |
| Place of Birth | Shanghai, China |
| Also Known As | Chen Chong, 陳冲, Can4 Cung1, Chén Chōng, Joan C. Chen, Joan Chen Chong, ChenChong, |
1991
Wedlock
5.7/154
A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner.
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Wedlock
1987
The Last Emperor
7.6/1664
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by h...
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The Last Emperor
2007
Lust, Caution
7.2/689
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission bec...
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Lust, Caution
1989
The Blood of Heroes
5.779/129
Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-...
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The Blood of Heroes
1993
Heaven & Earth
6.6/249
In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters...
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Heaven & Earth
1995
Judge Dredd
5.8/2458
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his m...
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Judge Dredd
1995
The Hunted
5.7/106
Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of danger and intrigue after he and his sexy companion are...
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The Hunted
1996
Wild Side
5.7/44
A bank accountant who moonlights as a high-priced call girl becomes embroiled in the lives of a money launderer, his seductive wife, and his bodyguard...
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Wild Side
1994
On Deadly Ground
5.141/463
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care w...
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On Deadly Ground
2004
Cyber Wars
5/21
In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using illegal...
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Cyber Wars
2009
Mao’s Last Dancer
6.6/113
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during...
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Mao’s Last Dancer
1999
In a Class of His Own
8/2
Rich Donato is the high school janitor at an Oregon high school. He is looked up to by the kids who often seek his advice. There is only one problem....
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In a Class of His Own
2021
Breathe
0/0
With the outbreak of the new corona virus epidemic, Kelly, a 17-year-old Chinese girl, followed her mother back to the hot and humid Shanghai. What tr...
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Breathe
1986
Tai-Pan
5/27
The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the...
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Tai-Pan
2008
24 City
7.1/54
As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury apar...
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24 City
2023
Hachiko
7.8/205
This is the story of a puppy that touched hundreds of millions of people around the world. Hachiko is a cute Chinese pastoral dog. He met his destined...
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Hachiko
2005
Sunflower
6.3/14
Sunflower is the story of the Zhang family in Beijing father, mother and son across three decades, centering on the tensions and misunderstandings bet...
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Sunflower
1994
Golden Gate
4/11
A brash 22-year-old FBI agent trumps up charges of Communist spying against a Chinese laundryman. Ten years later, he wants to make amends to the man...
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Golden Gate
1996
Precious Find
5.278/9
The year is 2049. 200 years after the great Californian goldrush. The new generation of gold diggers are just as full of gold fever as their ancestors...
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Precious Find
2004
Jasmine Women
7.6/13
Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and mothe...
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Jasmine Women
2010
Love in Disguise
5.5/23
Famous from an incredibly young age, DMH (Wang Lee Hom) has only ever known a celebrity pop star existence. Yet, despite all the glamour, there is sti...
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Love in Disguise
1993
Temptation of a Monk
6.1/10
Near the beginning of the Tang dynasty, in 7th century China, General Shi Yan-sheng is tricked into leaving the crown prince unguarded. The crown prin...
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Temptation of a Monk
2010
Color Me Love
6.3/5
The plot is vaguely reminiscent of The Devil Wears Prada. The heroine is a new fashion editor who has to deal with her female boss and boyfriend, an a...
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Color Me Love
2007
The Sun Also Rises
7.6/56
A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
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The Sun Also Rises
2004
Saving Face
7.3/214
A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
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Saving Face
2011
1911
5.7/152
China's first President Sun Yat-Sen and military commander Huang Xing lead the revolutionary Wuchang Uprising in a bid to put an end to the reign of t...
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1911
2000
What's Cooking?
5.7/23
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.
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What's Cooking?
2007
Hollywood Chinese
0/0
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance award-winni...
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Hollywood Chinese
2008
The Leap Years
5.8/4
Li-ann, a dreamer, is a strong believer of the soul mate theory and rejects all men, especially her best friend KS, till she falls in love with Jeremy...
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The Leap Years
2012
Passion Island
4.5/6
The comedy of the year. This wannabe magical romance-drama is one of the most illogical films ever and the actors, if not director Kam Kwok-Leung, may...
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Passion Island
1985
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
6/8
San Francisco's Richmond District. A widow welcomes the Chinese New Year. 62 years old, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her...
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Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
2013
White Frog
6/49
Story of a neglected teen with mild Asperger’s syndrome whose life is changed forever when tragedy hits his family.
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White Frog
2013
Swordsman
8/1
By the China Audio Visual, in the studio together to build a positive, gold medal screenwriter, producer is based in Jin Yong's famous novel "Swordsma...
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Swordsman
2013
Swordsman
8/1
By the China Audio Visual, in the studio together to build a positive, gold medal screenwriter, producer is based in Jin Yong's famous novel "Swordsma...
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Swordsman
2006
Americanese
2/1
Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling frien...
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Americanese
1994
Red Rose White Rose
6.5/17
Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels hap...
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Red Rose White Rose
2012
Double Xposure
5.3/16
When Song Qi stumbles upon her boyfriend's affair with her best friend, her life quickly starts falling apart and she is subsequently drawn into a qui...
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Double Xposure
1979
A Loyal Overseas Chinese Family
0/0
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A Loyal Overseas Chinese Family
1986
The Night Stalker
3.4/5
A tough homicide cop is assigned to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.
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The Night Stalker
2007
Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
7.2/8
A select group of key creative forces involved in the making of Twin Peaks reveals their take on the fascinating creation and journey of the wildly po...
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Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
Flayer
0/0
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Flayer
2007
The Home Song Stories
6.1/8
Tom, now in his 40s, begins to write the memoirs of his 1960s childhood, as the little boy whose mother Rose was a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer...
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The Home Song Stories
2015
Lady of the Dynasty
4.4/20
The tragic story of a Tang Dynasty imperial consort who was the favorite of the Emperor Xuanzong.
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Lady of the Dynasty
1992
Turtle Beach
4.6/9
Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes ro...
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Turtle Beach
2014
For Love or Money
5.5/8
"For Love or Money" is based on a novel by Zhang Xiaoxian, which tells the moving story between a fallen noble lady and a rich heir to a large company...
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For Love or Money
1986
Goodbye My Hero
5/1
Lindy Ng (Joan Chen) and her younger brother and sister eke out an impoverished life together, living in a rundown apartment. When Lindy is diagnosed...
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Goodbye My Hero
1999
Purple Storm
5.9/10
Khmer Rouge terrorist Kieron Chow and his unit arrive in Hong Kong for their latest mission. Todd, Chow's son and fiercely loyal right-hand man, susta...
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Purple Storm
1992
Shadow of a Stranger
0/0
Ted and Sarah Clinton notice a boat being violently hurled around by a storm just off their beach-house and go out to help the occupants, a young teac...
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Shadow of a Stranger
2024
Dìdi (弟弟)
7.1/75
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't...
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Dìdi (弟弟)
1988
Dim Sum Take-Out
6.5/4
Dim Sum Take-Out shows how the heterogeneity and complexity of Asian American experiences can be erased. It was literally cut together from film that...
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Dim Sum Take-Out
1981
Awakening
0/0
A disillusioned and lonely young man working for a foreign trade company finds his enthusiasm for life revived when he meets a young woman who seems t...
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Awakening
2011
Kiss, His First
0/0
Shanghai, two months ago... What would you risk to help a loved one?
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Kiss, His First
1979
The Little Flower
7/2
This movie is adapted from the novel Heroes in Tongbai. Xiao Hua, a sister of Zhao Yongsheng, is deserted by her poor family. He Xiangdong, a woodwork...
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The Little Flower
The Wedding Banquet
0/0
After his boyfriend rejects his marriage proposal, Min convinces his best friend Angela to marry him for his green card and offers to pay for her part...
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The Wedding Banquet
Oh. What. Fun.
0/0
Claire Clauster organizes a special Christmas outing when her family forgets her in the shuffle. By the time they realize their mistake, she’s gone mi...
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Oh. What. Fun.
2016
Critical Lifeline
6.5/2
Kai (Leehom Wang) awakens on his Shanghai houseboat––alone. His girlfriend Emma (Olivia Munn) has suddenly disappeared, leaving behind the one thing t...
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Critical Lifeline
2012
Hemingway & Gellhorn
6.1/173
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012
Let It Be
5/1
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Let It Be
1992
Steel Justice
3/3
David Nash has lost his son and his will to live. But the boy appears in his dreams, as well as his Robosaurus toy ! A mythical figure will help Nash...
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Steel Justice
1989
Twin Peaks
8.4/588
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the...
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Twin Peaks
2014
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
7.3/208
Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of...
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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
2010
To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey
0/0
The definitive and true-life story of Nancy Kwan who as a young Eurasian girl from Hong Kong captured the hearts and minds of cinemagoers around the w...
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To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey
2017
The House That Never Dies II
3.7/3
A cultural relic restorer discovers the skeletons of babies while working in an old mansion. The bloody events of the past drags everyone working on t...
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The House That Never Dies II
2017
The One
4.8/8
Funny scramble of an esoteric book of cooking between a guy without feeling, a tough girl, a master out of date, a dark-minded rich man, a emotion-man...
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The One
2008
All God's Children Can Dance
4.9/7
In Korea Town Los Angeles, a young man, Kengo, believes he's the son of God - that's what his mother told him since he was a young boy. He spends his...
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All God's Children Can Dance
1995
Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
1.5/2
Documentary on the making of the 1995 film 'Judge Dredd.'
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Stallone's Law: The Making of 'Judge Dredd'
2020
Ava
5.8/2555
A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
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Ava
1992
Strangers
3/2
Three provocative short stories. An American in Paris seduces a young man only to have the tables turned; a tourist recovering from an accident is alo...
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Strangers
Tonight at Noon
0/0
Lee and Mae are a couple trying to work out their differences. As Mae struggles with memories of a former flame, Lee, who is a writer, works through h...
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Tonight at Noon
2019
Sheep Without a Shepherd
7.7/83
Li and his wife A Yu run a small business in Thailand and enjoy a happy home life with their two daughters. When their eldest daughter is violently as...
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Sheep Without a Shepherd
2020
Tigertail
6.7/87
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
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Tigertail
2023
Under the Light
5.8/29
Su Jianming, the son of Deputy Mayor Zheng Gang of Jinjiang City, defies his father's counsel and attends a cunning dinner invitation from the wealthi...
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Under the Light
1977
Youth
0/0
After her senses are surgically restored, a formerly deaf mute teenager enlists in the army and is assigned to communications work. But her inexperien...
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Youth
1982
Peking Encounter
0/0
Syndicated TV movie about an American who falls in love in China, shot in Peking.
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Peking Encounter
Montréal, ma belle
0/0
Feng Xia (52), a Chinese immigrant, lives in Montreal with her husband and their children. The couple is in crisis as Feng Xia confronts a reality she...
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